Leading up to the provincial election in Manitoba in April, activists, family members of organ recipients and those waiting for organs pushed the topic of organ donation as an election issue. They reached out to many prominent people to help…
(screenshot of IDF Twitter page via israel21c.org) Smugglers of drugs and illegal migrants using tunnels along the U.S.-Mexico border may want to keep an eye on Israel. The American government, after all, is co-sponsoring the tunnel-detection technology now being developed…
Shapira began piloting JFiix in Israel a couple of years ago and it was launched recently in the United States and Canada with an English version. (screenshot) In 1996, at a time when not everyone had a home computer, Joe…
Israeli ration cards, which were distributed to all citizens, had to be presented at the neighborhood grocery to which a person was registered. (photo from National Library of Israel) If Rip Van Winkle – or his Jewish equivalent, Honi the…
Slackliner Heather Larson in action. (photo from Ashernet) On May 2, slackliner Heather Larson, from Denver, Colo., traveled the 35-metre distance between city walls at the Tower of David. Wearing a harness attached to the line, in case she fell,…
אחינועם ניני (צילום: jewishvancouver.com/yh2016) אחינועם ניני בוונקובר: כרטיסים בודדים נשארו למופע של יום העצמאות שיערך ביום רביעי הבא מרבית חברי הקהילה היהודית של אזור מטרו ונקובר עומדים מאחורי החלטת הפדרציה היהודית של אזור ונקובר, להביא את הזמרת הישראלית אחינועם ניני…
כוח גדול של משטרת ונקובר עצר ביום ראשון בלילה שני חשודים שבידם נמצאו חמישה רובים. (צילום: Roni Rachmani) רובים ללא שושנים בוונקובר: המשטרה עצרה שני חשודים שבידם נמצאו חמישה רובים כוח גדול של משטרת ונקובר עצר ביום ראשון בלילה שני…
Peter Suedfeld and his mother. Taken at Vajdahunyad Castle, Budapest, Hungary, circa 1939 (photo from Peter Suedfeld) Dr. Peter Suedfeld has devoted his life to the study of how human beings adapt to and cope with challenge, stress and danger.…
Irwin Cotler told those at the launch of the Pearson Centre for Progressive Policy’s Pursuing Justice Project on March 31 that his current focus is the Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights in Montreal. (photo by Dave Gordon) Irwin Cotler…
Left to right: Dana Chappellaz, Susan Weidman Schneider and Yelena Maleyev. (photo by Shayla Fink) The first-ever Winnipeg Jewish Women’s Symposium was held at Rady Jewish Community Centre on April 9 and 10, bringing together women of all ages to…
